The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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Pagina vii
... plates to be convinced that we can no longer build wooden vessels of war with safety to our naval superiority and the best interests of the country . I give no opinion as to the details of the reconstruction of the navy ; but I may ...
... plates to be convinced that we can no longer build wooden vessels of war with safety to our naval superiority and the best interests of the country . I give no opinion as to the details of the reconstruction of the navy ; but I may ...
Pagina viii
... plates as a defensive armor for ships . The success which has attended the adoption of this new system of defence affords the prospect of invulnerable ships of war ; and hence the desire of the gov- ernment to remodel the navy on an ...
... plates as a defensive armor for ships . The success which has attended the adoption of this new system of defence affords the prospect of invulnerable ships of war ; and hence the desire of the gov- ernment to remodel the navy on an ...
Pagina xvii
... plates , from original drawings , representing one hundred and forty- eight new and unfigured North American birds . A work of this de- scription has been long admitted to be a great desideratum , on account of the numerous additions to ...
... plates , from original drawings , representing one hundred and forty- eight new and unfigured North American birds . A work of this de- scription has been long admitted to be a great desideratum , on account of the numerous additions to ...
Pagina xviii
... plates , scales and diagrams of all the combinations of solids in earthwork , the whole the result of immense labor and original research on the part of the author . Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast of North America , from ...
... plates , scales and diagrams of all the combinations of solids in earthwork , the whole the result of immense labor and original research on the part of the author . Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast of North America , from ...
Pagina 32
... plate between time and eternity ; or , when mentally reasoned back to safety and security , and while listening , during the stoppage of the train , to the surging , cracking , crashing ice far below , as it swept past , to have those ...
... plate between time and eternity ; or , when mentally reasoned back to safety and security , and while listening , during the stoppage of the train , to the surging , cracking , crashing ice far below , as it swept past , to have those ...
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Pagina ix - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 150 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space, of action involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of...
Pagina 201 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.